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Kosmàc'ki muzyky. Ukrainian ethnic music. (The Kosmach Musicians)

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Kosmàc'ki muzyky. Ukrainian ethnic music. (The Kosmach Musicians)

There exist Tibetan monks in this world who travel, relate, show – and perform their Tibetan music. By any chance, have you ever heard them performing? If you have, probably you will be surprised with this recording, since the distance between the Tibet and the Carpathian Mountains is so big, but still the music of these regions has something in common, even something allied. The question is – where from? Yet, on the other hand, both are mountains, and it means that they are closer to the sky. As you know, in the sky the roots grow and communicate according to their own laws, which are not at all earthly. That is why all that is not surprising. Quite different things should be surprising – why people can seldom find a common language. Immediately one of the answers appears – since when you communicate with the help of words, practically always there is something fallacious and incomplete present in this communication. It happens because every person has his or her personal thesaurus in his or her head. And one of the decisions may be heard right now – because music is nearly the most universal language among all human and non-human languages. This is not even a theorem; it is simply a fact, and frankly speaking, a joyful fact. Its joy lies not in the hope for a possible harmonious communication, but in the fact that this communication exists now and keeps on existing. You should only see it. Or, to be exact, to hear. To feel.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)

"Ukrainian Ethnic Music" series came out of many ethnographical expeditions to different region of Ukraine. Compact discs have stylish design. In the colourful booklets you will find information about the places where recordings were made, stories about performers, lyrics of the songs etc. Information is given in Ukrainian and English.

Publisher: Atlantic
Year: 2004

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  Mountain meadow songs
1.  Signal of the ascent into the mountain meadows on trembita) (Syhnal do polonyns'koho hodu (Trembity i rih))
2.  Shepherd melodies on the jaw harp (Pastushi nahravannja na drymbi)
3. Mp3"Arkan", dance of the shepherds and the opryshky, or mountain bandits, on trembita ("Arkan" – tanec' vivchariv i opryshkiv (trembity))
4.  "Arkan" on tsymbali (a hammer dulcimer), fiddle, double flute and drum ("Arkan" (cymbaly, skrypka, dvodencivka, buben))
5.   Entrance into the mountain meadows on trembita with fanfare (Vhid v polonynu (trembity z kyhykannjam))
6. Mp3"Oh I Will Go up into the Mountain Meadows," a rhyming song (Spivanka vataha vivchariv "Oj pidu ja v polonynu")
7.  Shepherd melodies on telenka (Pastushi nahravannja na telenci)
8.  Shepherd melodies on double flute (Pastushi nahravannja na dvodencivci)
9.  Mountain meadow melody (Polonyns'ka)
10.  Medley of Hutsul melodies (V'jazanka hucul's'kyh melodiji)
  Wedding songs
11.  Beginning of the wedding (Pochatok vesillja)
12. Mp3"The Hutsul Girl" a fast dance tune ("Huculka")
13.  "Oh, the Green Evergreens," a wedding incantation by the matchmakers ("Oj, lezhat' bervy" (ladkannja starosty))
14.  "Oh, Lord May This Be a Good Time," as a march for the bridal couple ("Oj daj Bozhe v dobryj chas")
15.  "At the Table," music for singing ("Zastil'na" - muzyka do spivannja)
16.  Fiddle and double flute duet (Duet skrypky, cymbaliv i dvodencivky)
17.  Accompaniment to wedding incantation on fiddle and double flute (Pryhra do ladkannja (skrypka i dvodencivka))
18.  Fiddle solo (Solo skrypky)
19.  "Hopak," a dance tune (Hopak)
20.  "The Blue Cornflower," a dance tune, (improvisation on tsymbali) (Tanec' "Voloshka" (improvizacija na cymbalah))
21.   Dance Medley that includes: "Village of Mykulchenka," "Village lablunivka," "The Blue Cornflower" and "The Kozak" (V'jazanka tancjuval'nyh melodij (do huljannja))
22.  Accompaniment for the bridal couple (Pryhra "Molodi idut' do shljubu")
23.  Wedding drinking song (Vesil'na zastil'na)
24.  "The Dove," a dance tune (Tanec' "Holubka")
25.  "Mykyta," a dance tune (Tanec' "Mykytka")
  Winter songs
26.  "The Winter Song Singers Are Coming" on ("Koljadnyky idut'!" - syhnal trembity i rohu)
27.  "Behind the Pen in the Yard," a winter song ("A v pasterechku, na podvir'jachku")
28.  Well-wishing (Vinshuvannja)
29.  Trembita as the winter song singers leave (Syhnal trembity na vidhodi)
 Total playing time: 60:27

Fragments of the compositions marked with Mp3 mark are available for listening. How to listen?

See also:

Postop'janka z Podljashsha. Ukrainian ethnic music.


Pidlyashshya is a south-western region of Ukraine situated at the border, so naturally its culture is influenced by close neighbours – Belarus and Poland. In those parts along with usual songs you may also hear spiritual songs, Russian romances and songs, which once used to be Polish, but now have already become Ukrainian.
Domestic price: 278.60UAH, International price: $19.90USD

Bervin Bervinkovyj. Ukrainian ethnic music.


...when listening, you feel as if you were not exactly a listener. It looks as if you came to stay for some days, and the family turned out to be so sincere and so hospitable, that the hosts did not just receive and greet you as a guest, but also started to sing a song, moreover, not singly, but all together. So, you feel so warm, that you are reluctant to leave...
Domestic price: 278.60UAH, International price: $19.90USD

Reviews (7)

  Ãåííàä³é , Êè¿â
23-04-2008 10:46

Äèñê íàäçâè÷àéíî ãàðíèé. ² äîáðå ùî ð³çíîìàí³òíèé òà ÿê³ñíî çàïèñàíèé.


  , Barcelona, España
28-02-2007 16:41

Duze Dobre VITAYU


  , San Francisco, USA
29-12-2006 22:34

The so-called Romanian origin of "hutsul" is just one possible, but very unlikely explanation, If the Ukrainian hutsuls were so Romanian they would be all speaking Romanian language and be Roman Catholic - which has never been the case. There is certainly some influence from Romania, but only in the Bukovina region, in things like ethnic dress and colors, but it would be ridiculous for a Romanian person to imply that hutuls came from Romania! Hutsul name has also a very and only really possible origin in Ukrainian and Slavic culture not in Romanian. I want to remind our Romanian "expert" that it is not "hutsul" but "gutsul" the way it is written. So, was if it came from Romanian, Ukrainian word would have been written with an "h" and not "g". I would also like to remind our friend, that even today, there are numerous villages in Romania, where people still speak the hutsul Ukrainian dialect. Why? Because those territories once belonged to Slavic speakers, and during the 20th century became part of Romania through occupation. Romania is a wonderful country and Romanians are wonderful people, but they have nothing to do with the Ukrainian hutsuls. The Romanian friend does not even say if he enjoyed the hutsul CD. Cheers!


  , Brasov, Romania
29-12-2006 12:33

The name Hutsul comes from the Romanian noun Hots, which means outlow, or Haidouk. Mihail Eminescu, one of the great estern-european romantics, said that the hutsuls are dacians which addopted a slavic dialect, and Miklosch, a world-faimous specialist in ethnography, told that the hutsuls have a evident Romanian character in all their culture. The music from kosmaki, the romanian dances like Arkan, Kolomeika, the Doinas are as Romanian as the music from the village near Bucharest, with the same Tambal, and the same melodic lines, and that of Maramures, the ''Toscany'' of the Romanian literary language, as Nicolae Iorga said. I think the Kosmaki musicians should come to Romania, to give concerts, because there music is one of the oldest and purest forms of romanian music that exist, as pure as the folklore of Valachia, near the Danube.


  Îëüãà , Îäåññà, Óêðàèíà
20-09-2005 16:33

Äèñê îòëè÷íûé! Ìóçûêà î÷åíü èíòåðåñíàÿ è îðèãèíàëüíàÿ.
Äîñòàâêà áûñòðàÿ!


  , boussoit, belgique
01-09-2005 22:30

doujÎ fayno


  , Frostburg, MD, USA
26-04-2005 23:32

This is a wonderful CD of traditional Hutsul music performed by a group of truly outstanding musicians. The instrumental solos and duets are particularly beautiful and interesting. It's nice to have the notes in English as well as Ukrainian. Overall a great CD !